Japanese authorities have asked this city in Ibaraki Prefecture to start a preliminary survey into the feasibility of establishing a nuclear waste site in its territory. The local mayor has expressed support, but some residents have already protested. Only four sites have agreed to submit to the selection process, which is said to take 20 years.
The trial for the Catholic tycoon, founder of the Apple Daily newspaper - in jail for 20 months - will begin on 1 December. It will be entrusted to a panel of three specially appointed judges, dropping a cornerstone of the local system's legal protections. Lai has announced that he will plead not guilty to charges of "sedition and conspiracy with foreign forces" for which he faces life imprisonment.
The turning point in the plan officially presented by Kishida: new-generation reactors should come into operation in the thirties. There are also plans to extend the life of existing plants by not counting the post-Fukushima shutdown years. Currently, 17 of the current 33 nuclear reactors in Japan have received approval from government regulators to restart, which should be completed by summer 2023.
Nearly 5.5 billion euros in June: the highest figure since January 2013. In July, the youth unemployment figure was close to 20 percent. Goldman Sachs lowers its forecast for GDP growth in 2022 to 3 percent.
Thirty-five victims registered in a prison north of Pyongyang. Family members were unable to deliver extra food rations due to restrictions imposed to counter Covid-19. Dozens of people are still suffering from severe malnutrition. With the pandemic, visits by relatives have gone from monthly back to quarterly.
According to official data from the Ministry of Finance, China is followed by Japan at 32% and India at 10%. The International Monetary Fund wants an agreement with the creditors to grant the short-term aid needed to tackle the crisis that has brought the country to its knees. Beijing would like to provide new loans rather than waive debt, for fear that other borrowers of Belt and Road Initiative loans will demand the same treatment.
The prelate will head the Beijing body which enshrines independence of Chinese Catholicism. He was ordained in 2007 with the consent of the Holy See. Bishop Ma Yinglin becomes "honorary president". Bishop Shen Bin of Hainmen at the head of the Council of Bishops. The National Assembly reinforces rhetoric of patriotism and Sinicisation and the need to "unite and lead the the vast number of Catholics to accept Xi Jinping's thinking as their guide".
Today's headlines: at least four victims in the collapse of a Shia shrine in Kerbala; heavy rains and floods claim dozens of lives in India and Afghanistan; Tokyo is ready to deploy a thousand missiles as a deterrent to Beijing and Pyongyang; Singapore has cancelled a rule criminalising homosexuality; allegations over responsibility for Daria Dugina's death.
The report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is expected in the coming days. After last May's visit to China Michelle Bachelet was reportedly pressurised. The testimony of Uyghur activist Jukhia Ilham. His father Ilham Tokhti arrested in 2014, the family has not heard from him or been able to meet him for five years. The identity problem of minorities.
She Zhijiang was arrested in Thailand and is awaiting extradition to his homeland. Online casinos and fake sites thrive along the "Belt and Road" using "personnel" trafficked from China and Southeast Asian countries. Because of the "zero covid" policy, criminal gangs recruit more and more people from Taiwan, which in the absence of diplomatic relations has difficulty retrieving its citizens.
Today's headlines: Thousands of members of Unification Church protest in Seoul against "discrimination" in the Japanese media after the murder of former Premier Abe; Floods submerge Pakistan's Balochistan province, the death toll rises to 205; In China, the practice of sending critical voices to psychiatric clinics continues; Over 20 thousand Russian Jews have moved to Israel since the beginning of Moscow's war against Kiev.
In the Hubei city, the "congress" charged with dictating the line and renewing leadership. Vice-minister Cui Maohu praises the "autonomy and independence" of the Chinese Church and calls for "serious study and implementation of Xi Jinping's directives." In the review of the six years since the previous Assembly no mention of the Agreement with the Vatican on the appointment of bishops.
Today's headlines: Four Vietnamese activists, one a Christian, appeal sentence; Pyongyang sends 450 officials to political prisoner camps for spreading Covid; Putin bestows the title "heroic mother" on women who bear-or adopt-many children.
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